On the Theory and History of Ideological Production
Juan Carlos Rodriguez and His Contemporaries
Published on 16. August 2023
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296 pages
978-90-04-67856-9 (ISBN)
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On the Theory and History of Ideological Production promotes the existence of an 'ideological unconscious', understood primarily as a product of social relations, not of the Ideological State Apparatus. Attention focuses upon the transition from feudalism to capitalism, as theorised by the Spanish Marxist and former student of Althusser, Juan Carlos Rodriguez. Theorization of the 'ideological unconscious' presupposes a change of terrain from the individual/society opposition to a problematic based on the 'social formation'. The present text assesses Rodriguez's work alongside that of his contemporaries, Fredric Jameson, Noam Chomsky, Terry Eagleton, Roy Bhaskar, Slavoj Zizek, and others.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
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594 gr
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978-90-04-67856-9 (9789004678569)
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Malcolm K. Read, Ph.D. University of Wales, is Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Languages at the State University of New York. He has published monographs, translations, and many articles, including The Matrix Effect (2010) and Journeys through the Ideological Unconscious (2022).
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 In the Shadow of Althusser
?1?Negotiating the 'Break'
?2?The Ideological Unconscious
?3?Althusser: the Unconsciousness of Ideology
?4?Feudal Substantialism
?5?Althusser: Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology
?6?The Libidinal Unconscious
?7?Antonio Gramsci and the Case for Historicism
?8?The Eye/I That Sees the Thing
?9?Nicos Poulantzas: the Matrix Effect
2 On the Radical Historicity of Literature: Roy Bhaskar
?1?Who Walked a Crooked Mile
?2?A Hegelian Turn
?3?Visions in Exile
?4?History without a Subject
?5?On the Radical Historicity of 'Love'
?6?Ideology as 'Productivity'
?7?The Historical Origins of the Free Subject
?8?The Closet Althusserian
?9?Methodology versus Epistemology
?10?Critical Realism and Althusserianism
?11?Conclusion
3 Ideologies of the Transition: Noam Chomsky
?1?Chomsky and Huarte
?2?Ideologies of the Absolutist State
?3?Rodriguez and the Examination
?4?The Literal Gaze
?5?The Letter of the Law
?6?The Subsequent History of Animism
?7?Conclusion
4 Explorations of the Political/Ideological Unconscious: Fredric Jameson
?1?From Marx to Althusser
?2?Science and Ideology
?3?Althusser Reconfigured: from Kant to Hegel
?4?Theorising the Ideological Unconscious
?5?The Political Unconscious
?6?From Substantialist to Animist Tears
?7?Postmodernism and the End of Ideology
?8?The Melodrama of Tears: Jorge Isaacs's 'Maria'
?9?Conclusion
5 On Continuities and Discontinuities: Terry Eagleton
?1?Servants of the Lord
?2?The Legacy of Catholicism
?3?Radical Historicity: the Case of the Theatre
?4?The Individual and Society
?5?Transitional Ideologies
?6?Power versus Exploitation
?7?The 'Break' That Never Was
?8?Conclusion
6 Discourse and Ideology: Michel Foucault
?1?Making the 'Break'
?2?Theorising the Ideological Unconscious
?3?Theorising the Discursive Unconscious
?4?Mirrors and Souls
?5?A Borgesian Interlude: the Chinese Encyclopaedia
?6?Empowering Discursive Unconsciousness
?7?Staging the State Apparatus
?8?The Revenge of History
7 Educating the Educators: The Critical Realists
?1?Althusserian Unconsciousness Re-Visited
?2?Extracting the Concept
?3?Causal Dynamics
?4?Reclaiming Reality
?5?Love, Money, and Marriage
?6?Deprocessualising History
?7?On Radical Historicity
?8?British Marxism at Its Limits
?9?Conclusion
8 Paradoxes and Exploitation: Slavoj Zizek
?1?Towards a Philosophical Anthropology
?2?The Dog That Didn't Bark
?3?Fetishism and Commodity Fetishism
?4?'Structural Causality' and 'Homologies'
?5?The 'Look' versus the 'Gaze'
?6?The Paradoxes of Democracy
?7?The Private Eye: Traversing the Fantasy
?8?Conclusion
9 The Rise of Podemos: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
?1?Ernesto Laclau: Goodbye to All That
?2?The State/Stage under Absolutism
?3?Chantal Mouffe: Reductionism Inverted
?4?The Eighteenth-Century Drama: from Public to Private
?5?From the Social to the Discursive Formation
?6?Garcia Lorca: the Objectivity of the Text
?7?Podemos: Life in the Media
?8?Borges Revisited
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 In the Shadow of Althusser
?1?Negotiating the 'Break'
?2?The Ideological Unconscious
?3?Althusser: the Unconsciousness of Ideology
?4?Feudal Substantialism
?5?Althusser: Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology
?6?The Libidinal Unconscious
?7?Antonio Gramsci and the Case for Historicism
?8?The Eye/I That Sees the Thing
?9?Nicos Poulantzas: the Matrix Effect
2 On the Radical Historicity of Literature: Roy Bhaskar
?1?Who Walked a Crooked Mile
?2?A Hegelian Turn
?3?Visions in Exile
?4?History without a Subject
?5?On the Radical Historicity of 'Love'
?6?Ideology as 'Productivity'
?7?The Historical Origins of the Free Subject
?8?The Closet Althusserian
?9?Methodology versus Epistemology
?10?Critical Realism and Althusserianism
?11?Conclusion
3 Ideologies of the Transition: Noam Chomsky
?1?Chomsky and Huarte
?2?Ideologies of the Absolutist State
?3?Rodriguez and the Examination
?4?The Literal Gaze
?5?The Letter of the Law
?6?The Subsequent History of Animism
?7?Conclusion
4 Explorations of the Political/Ideological Unconscious: Fredric Jameson
?1?From Marx to Althusser
?2?Science and Ideology
?3?Althusser Reconfigured: from Kant to Hegel
?4?Theorising the Ideological Unconscious
?5?The Political Unconscious
?6?From Substantialist to Animist Tears
?7?Postmodernism and the End of Ideology
?8?The Melodrama of Tears: Jorge Isaacs's 'Maria'
?9?Conclusion
5 On Continuities and Discontinuities: Terry Eagleton
?1?Servants of the Lord
?2?The Legacy of Catholicism
?3?Radical Historicity: the Case of the Theatre
?4?The Individual and Society
?5?Transitional Ideologies
?6?Power versus Exploitation
?7?The 'Break' That Never Was
?8?Conclusion
6 Discourse and Ideology: Michel Foucault
?1?Making the 'Break'
?2?Theorising the Ideological Unconscious
?3?Theorising the Discursive Unconscious
?4?Mirrors and Souls
?5?A Borgesian Interlude: the Chinese Encyclopaedia
?6?Empowering Discursive Unconsciousness
?7?Staging the State Apparatus
?8?The Revenge of History
7 Educating the Educators: The Critical Realists
?1?Althusserian Unconsciousness Re-Visited
?2?Extracting the Concept
?3?Causal Dynamics
?4?Reclaiming Reality
?5?Love, Money, and Marriage
?6?Deprocessualising History
?7?On Radical Historicity
?8?British Marxism at Its Limits
?9?Conclusion
8 Paradoxes and Exploitation: Slavoj Zizek
?1?Towards a Philosophical Anthropology
?2?The Dog That Didn't Bark
?3?Fetishism and Commodity Fetishism
?4?'Structural Causality' and 'Homologies'
?5?The 'Look' versus the 'Gaze'
?6?The Paradoxes of Democracy
?7?The Private Eye: Traversing the Fantasy
?8?Conclusion
9 The Rise of Podemos: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
?1?Ernesto Laclau: Goodbye to All That
?2?The State/Stage under Absolutism
?3?Chantal Mouffe: Reductionism Inverted
?4?The Eighteenth-Century Drama: from Public to Private
?5?From the Social to the Discursive Formation
?6?Garcia Lorca: the Objectivity of the Text
?7?Podemos: Life in the Media
?8?Borges Revisited
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index